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In January, 2011, Levy notified the Beth Israel board that he would resign as president and CEO.

Levy sent an e-mail to the hospital community, saying he reached the conclusion to leave after turning 60 years old, and having returned from a mountain bike trip to Africa, where, he wrote, he had ''plenty of time in a less cluttered environment to think this through.''

Levy said he needed ''some new challenges,'' and made only a general reference to the controversy that surrounded him the previous year.